Memoirmonth Stories

A story of a young girl who found happiness but ended with a broken heart. (Based on a true story) © Schuyler Gabrielle, 2014. All rights reserved. *BOOK COVER: @eclectic_

HEY, YOU!! Yeah, you! Have you ever wanted to see "SMEE!!!" the musical? Be chased by a Hellhorse? Out-maths a P.E. teacher? Say "hello potato ice cream" in Welsh? Well, neither did I - but here's how it all happened anyway. #memoirmonth

Life is a sum of choices we make second by second. Depending on what we choose to do, we can rise and shine, or we can fall apart. And yet, enjoying the time, spent during each second, is more important than the moment we reach our final desired destination. While going forward year by year, Pheobe starts to understand that not everything in life can be as she wishes, and nobody can have it all. With this lesson learned, she will accept fate as it is, but continues pursuing her dream ignoring her heart. In the end, she has to take that ultimate decision of choosing between career and love. The time is up. No more stalling.

This is a true story about my life. I'm not going to lie and this is the truth. This is a short summary of what happened to me.

So basically I've got a clutter of paper on my desk and decided to chuck it the trash. But then, as I looked through all the paper, I realised that they were all my old poems. So why not put it on Wattpad I asked myself? So thats what I did and I hope you enjoy. (And by the way, they're all completely random!)

People will tell you that when one door closes, another opens. But these things are not necessarily simultaneous. When you shut the door on your past, there's a time when you're in darkness, scrabbling around for the handle to the door to the future. And you've got to decide who's going to walk through that door.

** Winner of The Watty's 2014: Collector's Dream Award ** ** This is a true story. Now FULLY edited ** I was diagnosed with Cancer a week before my 16th Birthday. I had Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and had to undergo Chemotherapy and a Stem Cell transplant, back in 2003. My whole life changed. I wrote this book when I was 17, when all my treatment was over, to catalogue everything I had learned and experienced. I had no information about Cancer during my treatment; it was all aimed at adults and I was a teenager who didn't understand most of what happened. So I wrote this book. I was a teenager when I wrote, when I had Cancer and I wanted this to be an information, honest account of what it was really like to have Cancer and go through the treatment....from a teenager's perspective. It's sometimes funny, sometimes sad, always honest. There may be parts that you squint at, because you're embarrassed to read them...well, I was embarrassed writing them. But that's the whole point of honesty. To get it out in the open. To be real. And that's what this is.

Short stories - a story per chapter Based on whatever I feel like writing in that moment ^^ They are mostly relatable stuff and a kind of go-with-flow thing Enjoy =)

It's the summer holidays for Amy whos best friend has been away on holiday. Nicole, Amy's mum meets Mandy, the new neighbour. Amy then becomes good friends with Mandy's son Adam but what will he think when they start school together. Amy's secret will be revealed.

Kira writes many letters to J., an estranged childhood friend, in her diary. "Is this the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning?"

Ross Macdonald--the pen name of Kenneth Millar--is widely considered one of the greatest crime novelists of all time. His Lew Archer series, which ran for nearly thirty years from the 1950s into the 1980s, broke new ground and influenced many of today's best mystery writers. In 1980, I went to California, wanting to meet Macdonald (and secretly hoping he would take me under his wing). Things did not quite work out that way, as you'll read in this memoir, written three years later when he died of Alzheimer's disease.